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Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease, characterized by low boné mass and by
changing the boné microstructure. According to the Portuguese Society of Osteoporosis and
Metabolic Boné Diseases (SPODOM), this disease affects about 500,000 people in Portugal. This
paperp resentsa studyo nt hee valuationo ft hefr acturesr iskd uet ob onéd emineralizationt hrough
various risk factors, An optimization code is developed using a mathematical program for
diagnosingt hed iseasea ndt oc omparei tw itht hed iagnosiso btainedf romD EXA(D ual-energyX -
ray absorptiometry) scans.
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Monteiro, D.; Pereira, A.; Batista, M.; Fonseca, E.M.M. (2015). Mathematical modelling for assessing fracture risk associated with osteoporosis. In the International Conference on Clinical and BioEngineering for Women’s Health BioMedWomen 2015. Porto, Portugal